could you try to ignore
the things you know —
spend a lifetime
placing pennies
in the corners
of a round room
turn out the lights
pretend to forget
return each year
expecting them
to be face up
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Day 22 at Glo/NaPoWriMo we are challenged to write a poem using a phrase of impossibility.
She & He #20
Jilly's 
Yes, we could try to ignore what we know, but it is impossible, unfortunately. At least as it pertains to the things we wish we could forget.
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Excellent! I hope this is in the narrative. A pause, a knowing.
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Thanks! This is a direct follow-on to Dangerous Question. Almost called it Another Dangerous Question.
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Perfect.
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Oh, I like that. And I could see him saying this to her–or vice versa.
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Exactly my intention! Does He contemplate ignoring what he discovered in his therapy session / Does She contemplate ignoring the truth he has discovered about himself & them?
And the beat goes on… 🙂
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And so it goes. 🙂
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The questions for He just keep getting harder and harder. It’s like a progressive final assessment — if you answer this one correctly, we will ramp up the difficulty. A dilemma. I’ll be waiting to see what transpires!
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Great analogy! I’m just doing that therapist thing – dig until He hollers, then dig some more.
I’m counting on them wrapping this up in 8 days… otherwise I’ll just have them both arrested. 😉
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Incarcerated or put on ice for the interim?
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as therapist I know the power of the question but as reader I thoroughly enjoyed the enigma
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